title: Epilepsy in middle or advanced age.
abstract: A clinical study was made on 66 middle-aged and elderly epileptic patients. They were divided for the purpose of study into three groups according to the onset stage. The findings briefly are as follows: 1) about 65% of the patients developed epilepsy when they were over 20 years old, 2) patients over middle age with epilepsy showed a high percentage of complex partial seizures, 3) each group showed specific features in regard to etiological study, 4) regarding control of seizures, 56.1% of the middle and advanced age patients responded favorably on the whole, and 5) 66.7% of the patients showed mental disturbances.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000473:pathology; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000175:diagnosis; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000175:diagnosis; D004830:Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012917:Social Adjustment; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed